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106-428 Cultural Practice/Cultural Politics

Year 4 English.

Credit points: 16.7 4th year

Coordinator: Chris Healy.

Contact: One 2-hour seminar per week.

• Objectives: Students who complete this subject successfully will:
• understand the major twentieth-century options for theorising cultural politics;
• have developed the analytical skills and methodological confidence to produce detailed and innovative studies in
• cultural politics;
• appreciate the interrelations and dynamic of cultural practices and cultural politics as lived, represented and effecting power in contemporary societies.

Timetable: Second semester

Content:

This subject offers a critical review of 'cultural politics' through a number of specific studies in order to re-think perceived notions of effect, consciousness, subjectivity, ideology, representation and the category 'cultural politics'.

Assessment:

Written work of not more than 6,000 words or an agreed equivalent in image/sound text.

Prescribed texts:

• Course reader available from the department

Recommended texts:

• Deleuze G and Guattari F Nomadology: The War Machine Semiotext(e). Fiske J Media Matters: Everyday Culture and Political Change Routledge
• hooks b Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representation Routledge
• Jordan G and Weedon C Cultural Politics Blackwell
• Lipstiz G Time Passages: Collective Memory and American Popular Culture Minnesota Press
• Michaels E Bad Aboriginal Art: Tradition, Media and Technological Horizons Allen & Unwin

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2. Cultural Studies, Faculty of Arts (v3, p50) : Next:106-430 | Prev:136-447

106-428 Cultural Practice/Cultural Politics

Year 4 Cultural Studies.

Credit points: 16.7 4th year

Coordinator: Chris Healy.

Contact: One 2-hour seminar per week.

Timetable: Second semester

Objectives:

Students completing this subject successfully should:

• understand the major twentieth-century options for theorising cultural politics;
• have developed the analytical skills and methodological confidence to produce detailed and innovative studies in cultural politics;
• appreciate the interrelations and dynamic of cultural practices and cultural politics as lived, represented and effecting power in contemporary societies.

Content:

A critical review of 'cultural politics' through a number of specific studies in order to re-think perceived notions of effect, consciousness, subjectivity, ideology, representation and the category 'cultural politics'.

Assessment:

Written work of not more than 6,000 words or an agreed equivalent in image/sound text.

Prescribed texts:

• Course reader available from the department

Recommended texts:

• Deleuze G and Guattari F Nomadology: The War Machine Semiotext(e)
• Fiske J Media Matters: Everyday Culture and Political Change Routledge
• hooks b Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representation Routledge
• Jordan G and Weedon C Cultural Politics Blackwell
• Lipstiz G Time Passages: Collective Memory and American Popular Culture Minnesota Press
• Michaels E Bad Aboriginal Art: Tradition, Media and Technological Horizons Allen & Unwin

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2. Cultural Studies, Faculty of Arts (v3, p50) : Next:106-430 | Prev:136-447

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Date created:    Oct  9 1995
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